The observations may have a solution in them <G>! I'll check all this out with our IT people. The Unix box came with a timekeeping system and our IT people have not ever worked with Unix. I have a long time ago so I got called!
I didn't run xntpd because I thought it was there to act as a server. However, I'll check it out more tomorrow. Thanks. Joel Hammer wrote: > No solutions, just some observations. I don't use w2k. > This is from the documentation for ntp: > > ntpdate: Directory containing sources for a program to set the > local machine time from one or more remote machines running NTP. > Operates like rdate, but much more accurate. > > I can get your error when I run ntpdate against an XP pro box and against > a linux box which is not running ntp. But, it works fine with a linux box > running xntpd. However, when I turned off the xntp daemon, then > turned it back on, it took several minutes for the server to come up to > full speed before it started to accept requests from ntpdate from my > client, even though xntpd was running fine on the server. > > So, is the Win2K server running the ntp daemon? Do any other clients > connect successfully? Maybe it is running a timeserver daemon on port 37? > (rfc 868). Do you have the equivalent of netstat -anp on the win2k box? > > ntp can be configured to serve only certain hosts or networks. How is the > win2k box configured? > > Also I might ask, why do you want to run ntpdate? Why not just run the > xntpd daemon on your Unix box and be syncronized to within milliseconds? > Once it is set up, it works without any problems (so far.) > > Joel > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:45:55PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >> have been asked by IT to help them with a Unix system they have. It's >> SCO >> Unix (uname -a gives UNIX_SV, 4.2mp 2.1.3 i686 x86at). >> >> They are trying to use ntpdate to synch with a Win2K server that is >> acting >> as a ntp server. For testing we ran ntpdate servername and get the >> message "No servers available for synchronization". >> >> 1. The Win2K server is in the hosts file and can be pinged. >> 2. DNS does work - I set it up and tested it. >> >> What does this message mean - does it mean that it found the server but >> didn't like something about it or can it not find the server? I also >> tried the -o option for ntpdate. >> >> In the process of troubleshooting we thought there might be problems with >> the network setup so we tried the following. This machine is no a >> network with a mask of 255.255.252.0 as is the server it's trying to get >> to. >> >> 1. First I tried the admin tools to set the netmask by selecting other >> and >> putting in the mask. When the system was restarted it wouldn't talk to >> anything and trying to change the route settings via the admin tool gave >> a "there's an error - see your administrator" - I was the administrator - >> let me in to fix it! -but using ifconfig to change the netmask and doing >> a >> down, then up on the interface allowed us to connect. However, the >> changes >> made by ifconfig did not stick during reboots. What's going on here? >> >> 2. We tried to add the route -n default nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn 1 for the >> default >> gate way. The route command didn't give an error but nothing changed in >> the routing table as listed by netstat -r. >> >> 3. The route command will give "To fix" errors on many of the commands >> such as add or delete listed in the man page. What is it trying to tell >> me? As far as I could tell the syntax was correct. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> -- >> Brett I. Holcomb >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> AKA Grunt <>< >> Registered Linux User #188143 >> Remove R777 to email >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list - >> http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe >> info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
